Zhou Yu appears in a ghostly form.
Zhou Yu: It's because in the story you kinda killed us all off, so... YOU BETTER THINK OF SOMETHING fast.
Blade puts some papers down and Zhou Yu takes a peek at them.
Zhou Yu: WELL WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
B/C: I was taking a little vacation from writing and from you guys, but I think it's time to change things around. For today I shall do something that my readers will think is shocking.
Zhou Yu: JUST PUT THE STORY UP ALREADY!!!
B/C: Okay... here it is my readers; I hope you all enjoy it.
Chapter 1: A New Life for One... A New Beginning for Two!!!
It was a bright, sunny day in China. School has let students out for the summer. Archaeologists are out on the field finding more and more artifacts of different Ancient Chinese civilizations. One Archaeologist was from America, her name is Alexandria Capashen; her son Daniel Capashen came to China to spend another summer with his mother. What Daniel did not realize is that his life would change this day.
At the dig site...
The Archaeologist start to go on their lunch break, but Alexandria stayed behind because she was close to finding something. Daniel waited for his mother in the break room. All the other Archaeologist started going home after lunch, but Alexandria did not return. So, Daniel walked outside and began to search for her. About 30 minutes later he found his mother still hard at work.
Daniel: "Mom, I been waiting for you in the break room, but you never came. Everyone else went home. I think we should be going as well."
Alexandria: "I guess you are right. I was hoping to uncover this tomb today, but it is a lot tougher than it seems. I guess I will have to try again... tomorrow..."
Alexandria passes out from all her hard work in the hot weather.
Daniel: "Ohh no!!! Mom are you okay?"
Daniel quickly rushes to his mother's side, but before he got to her the ground suddenly collapsed underneath him and he fell under into a dark room. Minutes later Daniel got back up slowly with minor injuries.
Daniel: "Ohh man that hurt!!!"
He looks around the room.
Daniel: "Where am I?"
He walks forward slowly in the dark room. He bumps into something. His hands go up slowly to feel what he bumped into.
Daniel: "Hmm... it feels like a crypt made of some type of smooth stone. There is an inscription on the side, good thing I studied the Chinese language. From what I can tell it says, "Here lies Zhou Yu." This is interesting, I read about him last night from an ancient book by Zhuge Liang and it was said that only a few know where Zhou Yu's tomb really is."
He gets this overwhelming sense of wanting to open the tomb. He begins to try to open the crypt, but nothing happens. Daniel kept trying over and over to open it. Finally he fell to his knees and he punched the crypt with his fist. The tomb began to shake and the crypt slowly began to open. Light from the sun reached the crypt; inside was a skeleton holding onto a sword with his right hand. Daniel reached out with his right hand and touched the sword. The sword began to glow and a beam of light shot out from the sword and up into the sky. Daniel watched the light as it went higher and higher, but suddenly someone grabbed his right arm. Daniel turned to see who had grabbed him and it was the skeleton. Daniel had a shocked expression, and then the beam of light that shot out came back and hit the skeleton. The force sent Daniel flying back; he somehow took the sword that the skeleton was holding onto. Daniel stuck the sword into the ground and that was able to stop him from flying into the wall. He planted his feet to the ground and then looked up. The skeleton seemed to have vanished into thin air. Daniel pulled the sword back out of the ground and it began to glow. It was so bright that it lit up the entire tomb. He looked around and then had this since to turn around. When he turned around there was a man holding a sword in his right hand. He had long flowing brown hair, a red bandana around his head, brown eyes, and some type of red clothing. Suddenly a latter was thrown down into the tomb.
Mysterious voice from above: "GRAB THE LATTER QUICKLY!!!"
Daniel quickly reached out with his left hand and grabbed onto the ladder. He was quickly pulled up. By the time he had made it to the surface no one else was around and his mother began to get up. Daniel quickly dragged her away from the hole and brought her to the break room.
Alexandria: "Ohh... Daniel, what happened?"
Daniel: "Well you were working too hard and you must have passed out, but I must say that you got close to finding something."
Daniel shows his mother the sword. His mother was shocked.
Alexandria: "This is amazing, we found the Sword of Light!!!"
Daniel: "Yeah, we sure did mom. Let us take this home and study it more there."
Alexandria: "I agree and you will drive us home, I am in no condition to be driving."
Daniel helped his mother outside and to the car. Then once they were both inside the car and secured in their seats Daniel cranked up the car and drove home. The sky began to get cloudy and the sound of thunder could be heard.
Daniel: "This sure is strange how quickly the weather changed."
A few minutes pass and they both finally make it home. Daniel helps his mother into the house and unlocks the door. Then he helps his mother to her bed, tucks her in, and closes the door to her room. He goes back out to the car and gets the Sword of Light from the back seat. He steps back inside the house and suddenly gets this strange sense. He looks down and sees a new set of wet shoe prints on the floor. He follows them and then finds a pair of shoes on the floor. Lighting struck and the loud sound of thunder can be heard. Daniel twirled around and saw the man from the tomb. He quickly charges at Daniel and tries to strike at him with his sword, but Daniel blocks the blow with his sword.
Mysterious Man: "I do not know how you have the Sword of Light, but be assured I will get it back and combine it again with my Ancient Sword."
Daniel: "Combine it again?"
Mysterious Man: "I know you must be working for Cao Cao, so do not try to play your tricks on me."
Daniel: "Cao Cao, but his body was never found after he feel with Xiao Qiao."
Mysterious Man: "Ha, I knew it, you are working with that mad man."
Daniel: "I have no idea of what you are talking about, but you will not come into this home with such disrespect."
Daniel knocks the sword out of the man's hand. The mysterious man hits the floor and Daniel quickly points the tip of the blade's sword at the man's neck.
Mysterious Man: "Go ahead and kill me, then tell Cao Cao that you have finally killed Zhou Yu of Wu.
Daniel drops the Sword of Light on his couch and extends his hand.
Daniel: "Well Zhou Yu of Wu, I am Daniel Capashen, I have only read about Cao Cao and the horrible pain he has brought upon you."
Zhou Yu: "How would you know such a thing?"
Daniel: "Well, I have lots of things to tell you, so let me fix you some coffee and we can discuss things."
Zhou Yu: "Okay, umm may I ask you a question?"
Daniel: "Sure, go right ahead."
Zhou Yu: "What is coffee?"
Daniel laughs.
Daniel: "Well, I can explain that to you and other things as well."
Zhou Yu reaches out for Daniel's hand and Daniel helps him up. Daniel begins to tell him everything that he knows and shows Zhou Yu how much has changed all this time. Zhou Yu was very fascinated about everything, including video games. Daniel told Zhou Yu so much that time just flew by and it became nighttime, but neither one of them got tired and so Daniel keep going on about things.
Elsewhere in a dark cave...
A dark figure begins to chant and do some strange dance around a fire. This made the weather get worse and worse. Then when he was done some sort of portal opened up out of thin air and then a man and a young woman came out of it.
Mysterious Woman: "Ha, look like you efforts to kill me Cao Cao have failed."
Cao Cao: "You know Xiao Qiao, I still have a sword so I can still carry out my ambition.
Dark Voice: "Still the same man I see, killing off innocent little kids or people."
Cao Cao: "That voice, it cannot be!!!"
Dark Voice: "Yes, it is I Guo Jia!!!"
Cao Cao: "How is that possible?"
Guo Jia: "Well, everyone thought I died after I ran my burning ship into Zhou Yu's. Fortunately I survived and ended up inside of this cave. I thought that I would die here, but I found this wonderful black book. It has the power to let me live forever with a spell, it also allowed me to bring you forward in time. I did not expect you to bring company on your journey to the future."
Cao Cao: "Well, Zhou Yu was quite the swordsman that day and if I was going to die, then I thought I would take someone with me."
Guo Jia: "A nice back up plan my lord."
Cao Cao: "So, tell me of this future that you brought me into."
Mysterious Dark Voice #2: "Actually Cao Cao, I am here to help you with that."
A man steps out from the shadows. He is dressed in an expensive suit, with some expensive shoes, haircut, watch, and you name it.
Guo Jia: "Allow me to introduce Siyi Ma or should I say Sima Yi of Wei. He is not like the Sima Yi you use to know in the past, this one owns the biggest business in China. Do not worry though he does know about his past life, he knows it so well he could tell it as if it happened yesterday."
Siyi Ma: "A pleasure to serve you again Cao Cao."
Cao Cao: "Now how did this come to be?"
Guo Jia: "Simple, the book allowed me to find all of your general's, restore their past life memories, and so on like that. I did not even have to leave this cave, because the book also allows me to channel my thoughts into other people's minds."
Cao Cao: "Excellent!!!"
Cao Cao evilly grins and then ties up Xiao Qiao. Siyi Ma escorts Cao Cao who is dragging Xiao Qiao along and Guo Jia out of the cave and to the surface. All of them then get inside of a limo and ride off into the ever so populated China.
The End for Chapter 1
B/C: Well?
Zhou Yu: Well, what?
B/C: How was it?
Zhou Yu: It was good, and it is great to be back. Since some jerk killed me off.
B/C: Ohh do not get angsty on me right now.
Zhou Yu: I'm not angsting!!!
B/C: You are soo-making angst for me right now.
Zhou Yu: Fine.
B/C: Okay, now that you are beaten again I can move along. I hope my readers enjoy this new story and if you read Zhou Yu's Journey, then this story will pay off in the end... trust me. Besides your already shocked, so you will become more shocked near the end. So I hope you all read, review and enjoy. Till next time.